Atari Gets A New Game
Young golden oldies
There’s something heartening about seeing new games release for old consoles. Maybe I’m an old man; perhaps my head is firmly placed in clouds of nostalgia, but news that we’re seeing a new game for a near fifty-year-old console.
Rescue from Poseiden’s Gate is the game, and the console it’s releasing for is the Atari 2600. The game is designed by David Crane, creator of Pitfall as well as a co-founder of Activision. Mr. Crane is now over at Audacity Games, a studio that he heads up with fellow videogame vets and Atari alumni Dan and Garry Kitchen.
Rescue from Poseiden’s Gate is game that ‘contains no hardware acceleration, and uses no technology that was not available at the time of Pitfall!™, Keystone Kapers™, or CRACKPOTS™.’ So it’s designed to run on real hardware without new for special chips or other technical wizardry unfamiliar to Atari cavemen.
Rescue from Poseiden’s Gate goes on sale on the 22nd of October, 2025, and it available through Audacity Games’ website.
Playing videogames, writing about videogames, considering videogames—that about sums it up. Videogames are the one hobby that I’ve kept since I was only little, zapping ducks on the NES or knocking out MR. X. And when I’m not enjoying classics from the bit generation of games or checking out those earliest of polygons, I’m probably playing something from today’s age of modern gaming: if I’m not complaining about it. Something I’m doing at the moment? Playing though Lost Eidolons and Unicorn Overlord.
